Feminist Critical Policy Analysis

"Feminist Critical Policy Analysis 1 " identifies and challenges the traditional power basis of policy makers in education, which have led to others being silenced, declared irrelevant, or otherwise ignored.

Volume 1. Part 1: What happens when feminism is an agenda of the State? feminist theory and the case of education policy in Australia, L. Yates; gender policies in American education - reflections of federal legislation and action, N. Stromquist; gender and the reports - the case of the missing pieces, L. Weis; feminist approaches to gender equality and schooling in the 1990s, M. David and M. Arnot. Part 2: the politics of evading gender in teacher education - in pursuit of new practices and policies, S. Hollingsworth; discourses of computing confidence, evaluation and gender - the case of computer use in the primary classroom, P. Singh; decentering silences/troubling/irony - a feminist postmodern approach to policy analysis, W. Pillow; tales from an "annoying, black girl trapped in a white girl's body, who acts like a boy" - gender adolescence and schooling, N. Adams. Part 3: feminist anlaysis of sexual harrassment policy - a critique of the ideal of community, J. Laible; transforming Western science - lessons from feminist scholarship, L. Parker. Volume 2. Part 1: women managing for diversity in a postmodern world, R. Deem and J. Ozga; making the "People's University" in South Africa, M. Walker; affirmative action and the status of women in the academy, J. Glazer; legitimacy maintenance - the politics of women's studies, C. Marshall and J. O'Barr. Part 2: lesbian existance and the challenge to normative constructions of the Academy, E. Bensimon; Emotional Work In A Chilly Climate, S. Acker And G. Feuerverger; new piece on women in math in universities, S. Frances. Part 3: "Mother's School" with feminist philosophy in Netherlands, Ter Dam; feminist pedagogy and the politics of authority, power and desire - educational theory, C. Luke; teaching to trangress - education as the practice of freedom, B. Hooks; from margin to marginality - a feminist in a PE classroom, R. Lock.